Doctor Macdonell Watkyn Woods

Known as Don
Engineer
Born
19 November 1911, Hobart, Tasmania
Died
16 March 1981, Adelaide, South Australia
Sex
Male
Father
Walter Alan Woods (journalist)
Mother
Jemima Gourlay Watkins
Married Dorothy Elizabeth Tibballs

Degrees

1934Bachelor of EngineeringThe University of Tasmania
1934Bachelor of ScienceThe University of Tasmania

Career

  • DPhil Oxon 1937.
  • FTSE 1976.
  • Rhodes Scholar for Tas 1934.
  • Offr-in-Charge of Engines Section, Div of Aeronautics, CSIR 1939-49.
  • Dir, Weapons Research Establishment (Salisbury, SA) 1965-76.
  • Pres of Council, SA Institute of Technology 1979-81.
  • OBE 1971.

Sources

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